Rob van Klaveren was born in 1959 in Deventer, the Netherlands.
He discovered the joy of painting during his high school period when he started to experiment with oil painting, initially on hard board, later on canvas. He never took lessons in oil painting. When he started his study in Medicine in 1978, and later on, during his training as a pulmonologist, he always had his easel next to his writing desk so that he could alternate studying with painting, which became more and more a passion for him. From the period 1975-1998 his first series of paintings originate.
During the years 1998-2010 no paintings were created because of his busy professional career as an academic pulmonary oncologist. Once more spare time became available after a career move in 2011, he decided to pick up painting again. Since then, approximately 4 paintings per year are created. In 2013 he was registered as a self-taught professional artist by the Dutch KuBRA foundation. In 2014 he became member of Dutch Master Painters. His style is Magic realistic with many symbolic elements. In 2021 he was nominated for the Dutch Portrait Price (DNP) and in 2023 he was awarded with a top 100 position of the International FiKVA contest of figurative painters and a Certificate of Artistic Achievement of the Luxembourg Art Prize 2023. In 2023 he became also member of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague, the Netherlands. In 2024 het received the honorary title Dutch Master of Realism.
Certificate of Artistic Achievement Luxembourg Art Prize 2023